ABSTRACT

In September 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration held a public hearing inviting comments on the regulation of human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products. This essay uses Nikolas Rose’s concept of molecularization to show the rhetorical conflicts that emerged between lay public arguments and biomedical experts’ claims about the limits of personal autonomy, ownership, and the definition of cells and tissues as products. By analyzing how public actors negotiate the regulation of human tissues, I argue that a rhetorical account of molecularization shows how and for whom bodies are commodified and physically distributed. Through this rhetorical account of molecularization, I move between the molecular level of the body (the micro) and the situatedness of human bodies (the macro) to rethink the ways bodies are defined, even at the level of the cell.

摘要

2016年9月，美国食品和药物管理局举行了一场公开听证会，请大家就人体细胞，组织以及细胞和组织基产品的监管发表评论。本文使用尼古拉斯·罗斯（Nikolas Rose）的分子化概念来说明在非公开公众辩论与生物医学专家关于个人自主权，所有权以及对细胞和组织作为产品的定义的主张之间出现的修辞冲突。通过分析公共行为者如何协商人体组织的调节，我认为对分子化的口头解释显示了如何以及为谁而对人体进行修饰和身体分布。通过对分子化的这种夸夸其谈的说明，我在人体的分子水平（微观）和人体的位置（宏观）之间进行了重新思考，重新定义了人体的定义方式，